YouTube announced on Thursday that the limit on uploaded videos has been increased, to 15 minutes.

That’s for everyone, of course. YouTube Partners don’t have a time limit, but rather a size limit of 20GB.

For those who want to earn, via video, their 15 minutes of fame, YouTube has a contest. if you tag your video with “yt15minutes” nadupload it by Wednesday, August 4, you may be among the select few that YouTube will feature on their homepage in the future spotlight.

One caveat: if you have a video that was too long before, but fits under the 15 minute limit now, YouTube has the following warning:

One final note: if you’re uploading a video that was previously rejected for being too long, you’ll have to go into “My Videos” and delete it before attempting to upload it again.

Many people complain about not being able to use YouTube on the new Motorola i1 (Boost Mobile). This video shows you a way to put the YouTube app onto your Motorola i1.

I see many great videos online almost on a daily basis and it still blows my mind how some of these videos can be completely un-optimized when it comes to getting them to rank in search results.

Just randomly submitting a video without any thought whatsoever into YouTube or Vimeo and not really taking the time to truly optimize the components of that video submission is a big disservice to your online efforts to market yourself or your business through the internet. A video submission is like any other web page bouncing around in the search results and requires some SEO efforts to increase its potential to be found through search engine optimization labors. Often times a title and description of a video will act as the page’s meta title tag and meta tag description. If you use very generic or cutesy titles during your video submission you are only hurting your potential to be found by your audience through organic listings. Read more…

Video is the ultimate engaging format on the web and the average Internet user views 25 minutes of video each day. YouTube is the number one video site. If you are not producing videos, you are missing a huge potential source of traffic.

In March 2010, 180 Million US Internet users watched 31.2 billion videos or over 100 million videos being viewed each day. That is an average of 173 videos per US Internet user per month. YouTube had 42% of all videos viewed online. The next closest video provider was Hulu with only 3.4% of the videos viewed.

YouTube is clearly the leader and the place you want to host your video. But what types of videos would you want to post? The first thing you need to do is make it interesting to a potential customer. Read more…